Well, I have had cats all my life and I love to take naps with them and snuggle. It is so good for my stress. But this one is a newcomer and he was abandoned. So I feel certain he has eaten a mouse or two. He is currently inside and out, so I know it appears I am in the higher risk area of this. I will get BF to do most of the scoops, but he travels quite a bit, so hopefully gloves/mask/washing may be acceptable occaisionally.
Here’s hoping I got it a long time ago from one of my past cats!
Squee!!! Congratulations!!!
Wait, female… pregnant… rational??/ Im KIDDING!!!
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EDIT: Mint - Congratulations I have just one warning. They grow up. /cry
I was a similar age and had a similar surprise and reaction to it.
She’s now 13 and seems to have survived my complete lack of preparation.
I waited till I was 3 months before ‘going public’. From memory that was the ‘proper’ time, but I can’t remember why (something to do with miscarriage risk but more than that too).
ETA my usual; She’s still the best surprise I ever got.
Well, my bf was awesome when I told him about it. He was perfect. He could tell I was mentally bananas and was so great. But, after a day or so of time for him to absorb it. Last night, I could tell he was where I was the previous day. I completely understand, and I am not being pushy or a Chatty Cathy about it. I think we are both still processing all this. I think for him, he just sees his retirement getting pushed back a little and the other financial concerns a man would have. I completely understand so I am just trying to give him room to breathe. Looking too far ahead right now is just not something I can handle. Right now I am focused on Friday and my Dr. appt. That is as far out as I will allow my brain to wander.
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Not too many years ago I was also totally clueless about how to take care of a baby. But I learned, and now my son is two and a half and seems to be doing fine. If I can do it, anybody can.
NONE of us know what we’re doing. Seriously.
Nobody knows about car seats and all the rest of that stuff, until they have to know it. I swear the baby-stuff aisle in my local supermarket magically materialised in the weeks after I got pregnant, because in years of shopping there I had never seen it before. There is no manual that everyone else has and you don’t. You’re gonna be fine.
You’ll pick up some of the essentials from friends and relatives. My brother’s kid is three months older than mine, so he showed me which way round to put on a nappy and told me which car seat is best and what rash cream to buy.
The rest you learn from the baby. Honestly. You just pay attention and figure out its needs as you go along - and no one can ever be prepared for that, because every baby is different. I have a toddler, and if we have another one, I’m pretty sure that much of it will feel like starting from scratch, because it won’t be the same kid.
If it’s screaming and it’s not wet or dirty or hungry, it almost always wants either cuddles or sleep.
The bleed you had could’ve been an implantation bleed, when the small thing attached itself. Or it could’ve been just a thing. Plenty of women have spotting through the first weeks of pregnancy. What I was told is that if you’re not having cramps, everything’s probably OK.
Seriously. You’re gonna be fine.
Well, that’s true, and it’s more than a cliche: Having a baby changes your life. Profoundly. But the two of you may just need a little bit of time to process the implications of this change. I know that in my own case it took much of the nine months of my wife’s pregancy to figure out exactly how we were going to reorganize our lives and our future plans. And we’re still making modifications as we go along and see what works.
Congrats.
I was the guy in this situation a few years ago, except my GF & I had only been together for maybe four months when she found out. I know she freaked out completely (she initially thought she had cancer) and then after doing a pregnancy test, plus another three of different brands just to make sure :), she worked herself into a massively stressed out state worrying that I would break up with her (the way she told me in a whole other story). I had my own freaking out moments as well.
We had a few long discussions about whether to go ahead with the pregnancy (we did) but at the time both of us had reached points in our lives where we had figured we wouldn’t have kids. You adapt and get by.
On the plus side you’re old enough to have the maturity to deal with things as they come. A sense of humour about the whole thing is a must – we had lots of jokes about shotgun weddings (our first son was 18 months old and she was 4 months pregnant with our second when we got hitched) and when she was feeling a bit down about the whole thing my comment of “You know honey, I’m really lucky I knocked-up someone I like!” 
was just the right thing at the right time.
Also, kids are a heap of fun.
I never wanted kids, and ended up having my son at 23. I was set on never having them and didn’t know the first thing about being a mom. It really does come naturally (to MOST women) but it’s also ok to be freaked out and confused. I was depressed through my entire pregnancy and didn’t really want to be a mom. But the moment I had him was the “cliche” moment, where I immediately fell in love.
Congratulations!
No one is prepared to have a kid (at least the first one). No one can tell you what it’s like. As someone upthread already said, it changes your whole life, for the better IMO. But before you have one, you have NO idea what it’s like to be a parent. You can read books (my wife and I read like half a dozen during her first pregnancy) but it’s like a deaf man reading descriptions of music.
Enjoy the pregnancy (really, it is not that horrible, at least according to my wife), take things slow, you have lots of time to prepare the room/crib/little clothes etc. You’re going on an adventure that never ends.
I did this fairly recently myself. Even though I went into it not necessarily wanting kids my daughter has been more awesome than anything else in the whole world. You’ll be fine, I promise!
Congratulations! More Doper babies are always welcome in this world!
Best wishes for a healthy pregnancy.
I haven’t finished the thread yet but wanted to reassure you here- yes, bleeding during early pregnancy does happen and isn’t necessarily a problem. I had what I thought was a full period very early in mine and we were both just fine.
You’re not clueless, you just haven’t ever done this stuff before. I promise you’ll figure it all out. These are learned skills.
Wear rubber gloves changing the kitty litter, you’ll be fine. Everyone I have ever known who has kids has been a cat owner through pregnancy and no fetuses were harmed!
If babies were as delicate and fragile as they seem, the population would be a lot smaller.
All you need to know right now is what you want to ask the doctor, and if you forget something you can call back and ask. It will be okay. Heck, if I can do it, so can you. Right now you only need to get used to the whole idea. You have time.
In the meantime, congratulations!
Congratulations! It’s name picking time soon. 
Talk about a bombshell! I don’t know whether you want congratulations or condolences (or a combination, um… condoltulations? congradolences?), so I won’t offer either. That said, try to stay away from parenting forums online, unless you get a good recommendation from someone here. There are a lot of uninformed and/or unintelligent people spreading misinformation out there. And some flat-out trolls, I’m sure.
That happened to me, too. We never planned to have kids, then suddenly changed our minds one day in a fit of temporary insanity. I still don’t know what the hell I’m doing half the time, but I do believe my life has changed for the better. Congratulations and best wishes for a healthy pregnancy for you!